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Poster: uncleJohnny Date: Sep 14, 2006 6:24am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Trying to love Around & Around

gel, who wrote promised land?

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Poster: kschneid Date: Sep 14, 2006 6:45am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Trying to love Around & Around

Pretty sure that was Berry.

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Poster: Purple Gel Date: Sep 14, 2006 7:50am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Trying to love Around & Around

It was Berry, though the best known version may be Elvis'.
This post was modified by Purple Gel on 2006-09-14 14:50:49

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Poster: uncleJohnny Date: Sep 15, 2006 5:51am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Trying to love Around & Around

I would have never guessed
lost your number but ill get it tonight

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Poster: jhender501 Date: Sep 14, 2006 8:30am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Trying to love Around & Around

Promised Land is probably my all time favorite dead cover tune. If I could make up CDs of all of the Promised Lands they did, I'd be a happy man.


Jim

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Poster: sydthecat Date: Sep 14, 2006 6:59am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Trying to love Around & Around

It was Chuck Berry and it's my favourite Berry tune after Too Much Monkey Business, Rock and Roll Music and Down the Road Apiece. Romantics like Greil Marcus say it's the third of a trilogy that begins with Johnny B. Goode and is followed by Bye Bye Johnny. If you listen to all three it really is sort of a story with Johnny himself taking the narrative in Promised Land.

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Poster: uncleJohnny Date: Sep 15, 2006 5:54pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Trying to love Around & Around

I cant remember the monkey business song
Im going to have to get ahold of some chuck and check it out.
Thanks for the history lesson
One more thing,which johnny is the song talking about?
Im clueless here

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Poster: sydthecat Date: Sep 16, 2006 9:26am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Trying to love Around & Around

Well I always thought that Johnny was Chuck himself. In Promised Land there is no mention of Johnny. The only clue is the "poor boy is on the line" which is how Johnny is described in Johnny B. Goode. Play all three tunes and it all makes sense. The Stones ripped up Bye-Bye Johnny on their '72 tour of America. I have several excellent boots of this tour. One of my fave solos by Keith Richards is him playing the song in NYC. He had the Berry oeuvre nailed. Jerry also understood the Berry style intimately. He could hear the swing percolating underneath and bring it to the fore as well.

Rent the DVD of Hail, Hail Rock n' Roll for a quick history lesson of Chuck. Keith Richards puts together a six star band to play behind Berry in St. Louis. It's fascinating, a laugh, and a first rate documentary. It also rocks.